MV Celebrity Mercury
| 300px Celebrity Mercury near Cabo San Lucas, November 2005 | |
| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: |
1997 — 2008: Mercury 2008 - 2011: Celebrity Mercury 2011-???? Mein Schiff 2 |
| Operator: |
1997-2011 Celebrity Cruises 2011-???? TUI Cruises |
| Port of registry: |
 Bahamas |
| Builder: | Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany |
| Christened: | Nov 2, 1997 |
| In service: | 1997-present |
| Identification: | IMO number: 9106302 |
| Status: | In Active Service as of 2010 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 77,713 gross tons |
| Length: | 866 ft (264 m) |
| Beam: | 105.6 ft (32 m) |
| Draft: | 25.5 ft (8 m) |
| Decks: | 12 |
| Speed: | 21.5-knot (40 km/h) |
| Capacity: | 1,886 passengers |
MV Celebrity Mercury is a Century class cruise ship owned and operated by Celebrity Cruises. She was built in 1997 as MV Mercury by the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany.
In the summer of 2006, just prior to the Mercury's planned departure for an Alaska cruise, Seattle-based inspectors from the U.S. Coast Guard arrested the captain of the Mercury for intoxication. Celebrity Cruises arranged for a replacement, and fired the original captain.[1][2]
During a cruise from Charleston, South Carolina to the eastern Caribbean in February 2010, the ship was struck with an outbreak of norovirus, sickening nearly 500 people on board, out of a total of just over 1,800. According to Celebrity Cruises, those sickened were treated with over-the-counter medicine, and responded well to it. Additionally, a doctor and two nurses joined the ship midway through the cruise to assist with the outbreak.[3]
In February 2011 Celebrity Mercury will leave Celebrity Cruises to sail as Mein Schiff 2 the second in TUI Cruises fleet joining Mein Schiff, her sister ship, the former Celebrity Galaxy.
References
- ↑ "Periklis Petridis / Drunk Captain Celebrity Cruise Lines - Mercury". cruisebruise.com. May 19, 2006. http://www.cruisebruise.com/Periklis_Petridis.html. Retrieved 2007-10-29.
- ↑ "Lawyer says ship captain arrested, fired over drinking was off duty". Seattle Times. May 23, 2006. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003012581_captain23m.html?syndication=rss. Retrieved 2007-10-29.
- ↑ "Cruise ship back in U.S. after 435 get sick". CNN. 26 February 2010. http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/02/26/cruise.ship.illness/index.html?hpt=T2. Retrieved 26 February 2010.
External links
| MV Celebrity Mercury
]]- Official Mercury page on CelebrityCruises.com
- Cruise Critic Review
- Recent pictures and menus of Celebrity Mercury
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